Trauer ist das Ding mit Federn

A young woman has died. Her children, two little boys, and her husband are still numb from the shock, having received countless condolences and lasagna to heat up, organizing the necessary things, and now the unbearable emptiness sets in. Then the doorbell rings. Dark as death and feathered, it bursts in, grabs the father, and declares: "I won't leave until you no longer need me." The larger-than-life crow ruthlessly nests within the family, speaks with drastic wit, and becomes a kind of subversive therapist, a wonderfully anarchic Mary Poppins. Max Porter has created a vividly powerful, wild book about grief.